The Archive · 1935

Mr. Roosevelt Is Slipping

On the eve of the second anniversary of his inauguration," President Roosevelt's legislative prestige is rapidly fading.

The President must soon, confront the necessity of establishing firm working control of Congress, sacrificing the majority of his reform programme to early adjournment of the legislative body.

Democratic congressional leaders believe that the New Deal will be able to withstand the assaults upon it th the present. session, however Gespite the fact that the Administra tion will probably lose its fight against the Soldiers' bonus and almost inevitably must retreat from tts position on the Public Works Reitef Bin,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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